Posted 4 years ago
ROB1961
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This is the TV we had growing up in Winnipeg, Canada from at least 1967 until I moved in 1976.
2 pics merged to 1, sorry that it's very blurry. Does anyone think they had this brand? From various searches, it may have been an Electrohome Courier. Electrohome was Canada's largest TV manufacturer from 1949-1984. The black and white ad is from 1962. It almost looks exactly like the TV we had.
Thanks for your help or replies.
This is the TV we had growing up in Winnipeg, Canada from at least 1967 until I moved in 1976.
2 pics merged to 1, sorry that it's very blurry. Does anyone think they had this brand? From various searches, it may have been an Electrohome Courier. Electrohome was Canada's largest TV manufacturer from 1949-1984. The black and white ad is from 1962. It almost looks exactly like the TV we had.
Thanks for your help or replies.
There was a Ferguson Courier tv also..cant find a match
There was also a Philco Courier. Both the Ferguson and Philco don't look like mine. Then again, I'm not 100% positive that mine was an Electrohome, even if the ad looks like mine.
Hi, ROB1961. :-)
I found a color ad for the Electrohome Courier, plus specs (I suspect that when they say "1986," they're talking about the postcard itself, which probably has a retro image on it):
*snip*
ELECTROHOME COURIER
. . . A "bantam weight" portable (36 1/2 lbs. light) with all the picture punch of a console transformer powered 17 tube hand wired chassis delivers 25 tube performance 17" short neck 110 degree picture tube for briefcase slim styling
*snip*
https://www.cardcow.com/830276/electrochrome-courier-portable-television-1986-advertising/
Here's the same ad, characterized as being of late 50s vintage:
https://www.nova.edu/publications/horizons-fall2015/30/
Hello keramikos and thanks for your reply with the information.
I've seen that photo several times of the girl carrying the TV, but I wasn't convinced it was the one. I think that ad was from 1959, plus the corners of the chassis were rounded (mine seen to be square). Although the ad I posted from 1962 has rounded corners. Maybe my color photo is deceiving and the TV really does have rounded corners??
ROB1961, You're right, the corners on the ad TV are more rounded, plus it also seems perhaps deeper, and more deep at the bottom than the top.
Still, it's similar enough to make one wonder whether there were minor tweaks to the model between the late fifties and the mid-sixties.